Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1893 | Greenbrier | Chesapeake & Ohio | |
1902 | Greenbrier | Elder & Fyffes Shipping Ltd. | |
1910 | Greenbrier | Tropical Fruit S.S. Co. Ltd. | |
1914 | Greenbrier | Coast SS Co. |
Mined and sunk near Amrum, North Frisia, Denmark, on April 2nd, 1915.
Owners: 1893 Chesapeake & Ohio S.S. Co. Ltd. (London) West Hartlepool: 1902 Elders & Fyffes Ltd., West Hartlepool (converted to part refrigerated): 1910 Tropical Fruit S.S. C.o Ltd., West Hartlepool: 1914 Coast S.S. Co., Wilmington, Delaware
Masters: 1893-94 H Boig: 1894 SS Steel: 1894-97 JH Trinick: 1899-1900 C Martin: 1904-05 D Reside: 1906 FH Swain: 1908-09 H Galt.
The New York Times 30 April 1915.
“The War Risk Insurance Bureau of the Treasury Department has decided to pay $50,000 to the Ocean S.S. Co. in insurance on the hull of the steamship Greenbrier, sunk by a mine on her return voyage from Bremen on 2 April. The Greenbrier sailed from Charleston SC with a cargo of cotton. The cargo was insured for $465,000 & the hull for $50,000 for the round trip. The cargo was landed safely & the ship was sunk the day after she started back.”
More detail »This section will, in time, contain the stories of more than 450 merchant ships built or owned in the Hartlepools, and which were lost during the First World War. As an illustration of the truly global nature of shipbuilding, these ships were owned by companies from 22 different countries, including more than 30 sailing under the German flag at the outbreak of war.